blake studdard

Phil, Becky, Charlsey, and I are leaving tonight around 9 to drive through the night to Atlanta. We plan on doing nothing important. Except for the most important thing… Being with each other. It’s easy to get together and write music, plan and dream about super intense things. But probably the most exciting thing about [...]

I kind of knew it. We started talking on the phone when she came in town from Colorado last October (2008). For about 10 months or so, we talked once or twice a week for 3 or 4 hours at a time, usually late into the night. I knew around January that I wanted to [...]

everything’s a secret. for now…

Got off the road with the Nick Thurmond Band.
Quit the Nick Thurmond Band.
Settled into my new house with 5 other guys.
Asked Charlsey if she wanted to start dating.
Started dating Charlsey
Road tripped with 3 of the most important people in my life to California.
Attended Bethel School of the Prophets.
Got a tattoo symbolizing the 24-7 presence of [...]

i’m about halfway through ‘reading the bible in 90 days.’
and i’m taking a break.
here’s why :
i’m aware that the past week and a half has been full of killing lions and killing bears. i quit a band that provided 90 percent of my income. i shot my first wedding as ‘207 photography cooperative’ with Evan. [...]

i don’t mean to say things i don’t mean.
every day is a snap-of-the-fingers
and i breathe in the rusty things.
it’s not dirty, don’t clean it off,
there was never a time i didn’t know.
i guess deep down i chased it too,
but i can’t remember -
drag the bells, through the snow.
just one more time, i need it.
fuzzy hats [...]

Last week I told Nick and the band I wouldn’t be playing with them anymore. It’s been 4 years of commitment to Nick, and I have to say I’ve grown musically in huge ways because of him. I’ve been a lot of places, seen a lot of cities (and even more tiny towns I never [...]

one of my best friends told me that this blog inspires intimacy.
the kingdom of Hell told me I don’t have anything to give.
but I belong to the Lover, who gives me everything I’ve ever needed… which means i have everything to give.
A few days ago I called a friend of mine who moved a couple [...]

I’ve moved into a new house (again), released a record that embodies everything I love to do, and now I am sitting in a condo in Panama City Beach after the first week of a Nick Thurmond tour, letting a 4 day weekend off work pass me by.
I’ve been reading the Bible more recently than [...]